Re: dangling symlinks in rpm packages for Fedora-devel

From: Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>

To: fedora-devel-list redhat com

Subject: Re: dangling symlinks in rpm packages for Fedora-devel

Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:50:21 +0000 (UTC)

I wrote:
> Ouch, these are really bad. I don't understand what's going on here. These
> are not supposed to be symlinks, they are supposed to be loadable plugins,
> and in the F7 RPM which is built from the same specfile, they are. How they
> get replaced with symlinks not pointing to anywhere is a mystery to me. Maybe
> a cmake bug? Or some other toolchain component?
I just tried to rebuild the package for F8, but that doesn't fix anything (I
canceled the build after i386 completed with strigi-libs still containing the
offending symlinks). I don't understand why this happens, yet on Fedora 7 the
exact same spec produced a valid strigi-libs (with actual plugins, not symlinks
not pointing to anything).
Here's my build attempt (canceled due to invalid output on i386, the first arch
which completed):
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=219233
Kevin Kofler